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“The watchdogs at Judicial Watch discovered documents that reveal how the Obama administration's close coordination with the Mexican government entices Mexicans to hop over the fence and on to the American dole.” Washington Times

Sunday, July 18, 2010

MEXICANS ARE THE MOST VIOLENT PEOPLE IN THE HEMISPHERE. SO WHY DO WE HAVE TROUPS OVER IN IRAQ?

Officials say gunmen kill 17 at party in Mexico

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico (AP) — Gunmen stormed a party in northern Mexico on Sunday and massacred 17 people, authorities said.The assailants arrived at the gathering in the city of Torreon in several cars and opened fire without saying a word, the Coahuila state Attorney General's Office said in statement. At least 18 people were wounded.

Several of the victims were young and some were women, but their identities and ages had not yet been determined.

Television footage showed the patio of the house streaked with bloodstains and white plastic chairs overturned beneath a party tent decorated with pictures of snowmen. Police found more than 120 bullet casings at the scene, most of them from .223-caliber weapons.

Investigators had no suspects or information on a possible motive.

Coahuila is among several northern states that has seen a spike in drug-related violence that authorities attribute to a fight between the Gulf cartel and its former enforcers, known as the Zetas.

In May, gunmen killed eight people at a bar in Torreon. Later that month, a television station and the offices of a local newspaper came under fire. A pregnant woman was wounded in the attack on the offices of Noticias de El Sol de la Laguna.

Across northern Mexico, there have been increasing reports of mass shootings at parties, bars and rehab clinics.

In the worst such massacre this year, gunmen raided a drug-rehab center in the northern city of Chihuahua and killed 19 people last month. In January, gunmen barged into a private party in the border city of Ciudad Juarez and killed 15, many of them high school or university students. Relatives say the January attack was a case of mistaken identity, while state officials claim someone at the party was targeted, although they have not said who it was.

The killings in Torreon came three days after the first successful car bombing by drug cartels, an attack that introduced a new threat to Mexico's raging drug war.

The FBI has sent a small team to the crime scene to offer technical assistance to the Mexican investigators, FBI spokeswoman Andrea Simmons said. She did not immediately offer more details.

Mexican investigators have not said what type of explosive was used.

Drug-gang members detonated the bomb after luring federal police and paramedics to an intersection in Ciudad Juarez by shooting a bound man dressed in police uniform and calling in a false report of a wounded officer. Three people were killed, including a federal officer and a private doctor who had rushed to the scene to help.

Officials say 24,800 people have been killed in drug-gang violence since President Felipe Calderon declared war on the cartels in December 2006, deploying soand federal police to fight traffickers in their strongholds.

On Saturday, four municipal police officers patrolling in a truck were ambushed and killed in the Pacific coast resort city of Acapulco, state police said. A threatening message was scrawled on the truck's windshield.

The government attributes much of the rise in violence to infighting among drug gangs, whose leadership has been splintered after the arrest of kingpins.

Federal police said in a statement Sunday that they have arrested 1,626 people suspected of belonging to the command structures of Mexico's drug gangs since Calderon launched his offensive. They said 622 of the detainees belong to the Gulf cartel and 304 to the Sinaloa cartel.

On Sunday, a judge formally charged an alleged leader of the Beltran Leyva cartel, Jose Gerardo Alvarez, with organized crime. Alvarez, who had a $2 million U.S. bounty on his head, was captured in April after soldiers battled his men in a wealthy neighborhood on the outskirts of Mexico City

Three people were killed in the shootout.

The federal government has steadily wiped out the leadership of the once-powerful Beltran Leyva cartel. In December, cartel boss Arturo Beltran Leyva was killed in a gunbattle with marines in the central city of Cuernavaca. Two of his brothers are behind bars.

A fourth brother, Hector Beltran Leyva, remains at large and is believed to be battling for control of the cartel against Edgar Valdez Villareal, a U.S.-born suspect known as "La Barbie."

Mexican authorities say Alvarez partnered with Valdez in his quest for control of the gang.

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Immigrants trying to cross into the U.S. walk into traps set up by gangs with far-reaching networks, authorities learn.

By Richard Marosi, Los Angeles Times

July 18, 2010

Reporting from Tecate, Mexico

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The bedraggled immigrants were picking their way through the boulders and scrub when a group of heavily armed men descended on them just short of the California- Mexico border. They corralled them in a cave and pointed their guns on the 10 men and one woman.

These lawless badlands in the hills east of Tijuana have long teemed with bandits and rapists, but these criminals demanded only phone numbers. They started calling the immigrants' loved ones in Pomona, San Diego and Bakersfield: Send us money or we'll shoot, they said.

The days-long kidnapping ordeal in May illustrates a growing trend as roaming gangs of well-organized, heavily armed gunmen turn their sights on illegal immigrants, making a treacherous journey ever more dangerous for people trekking north.

In the spree of kidnappings, which began about two years ago, gunmen hold people captive until family members in the U.S. send wire transfers of up to $5,000 to accounts in Mexico. Some immigrants are beaten; several have been killed, including a pair of brothers from Mexico City. Many straggle across the border and turn themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol agents. Others end up in migrant shelters in Tijuana, too frightened to report the cases to Mexican police.

Little was known about how the criminals operate until Mexican authorities dismantled two gangs in recent months, including the one in May, when 11 suspects were arrested after a shootout and a wild foot chase through the hills.

The arrests provided authorities with a rare glimpse into criminal networks whose reach stretches from the border to cities across the U.S. and Mexico. The gang was allegedly run by a career criminal from Nayarit and included a former Mexican army soldier. They admitted kidnapping more than 100 immigrants over 18 months, holding them in remote caves, makeshift camp and ranches.

"We threatened the families that if they didn't pay we would kill the immigrants," said Jose Flores Romero, the alleged ring leader, in his statement to detectives, referring to the abductions in May.

Authorities believe several gangs continue to operate. With a network of lookouts scattered at key points across 60 miles of rugged, isolated terrain, few immigrants slip by without them knowing about it.

"They know all the trails leading to the border, from Tijuana to Tecate and the La Rumorosa" mountain range, said Fermin Gomez, a Baja California assistant attorney general. "They know exactly where they're going, how many are walking, and they're all intercepted."

The current situation resulted from a convergence of factors in the U.S. and Mexico that put increasing pressure on the traditional human smuggling groups in the area, according to authorities in both countries.

Organized-crime bosses in Tijuana, squeezed by a drug war, demanded higher payoffs, while U.S. authorities, adding fencing and staffing on the border, were making it more difficult to get immigrants through.

With a smuggling infrastructure already in place, it was easy and profitable for criminals to switch to kidnapping. Federal authorities in the U.S. immediately noticed the dangerous trend. Many immigrants began showing up at the border, seeking medical attention instead of eluding agents.

"They're traumatized," said Robert C. Rodgers, a supervisor for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Diego, which investigates smuggling groups in the area. "They jump the fence into the U.S. looking for help."

The journeys start out straightforward enough. In Tijuana, recruiters scour fleabag motels that house immigrants waiting to cross the border. Offering safe passage, the recruiters transport the immigrants to staging areas in the ranchlands east of the city. Many of the recruiters and drivers are women who bring along their children to put the immigrants at ease.

At the staging areas, foot guides lead the immigrants into the mountains, down well-worn paths, into the hands of gunmen. "For the guides it's a win-win proposition: They don't have to cross the border, or risk being captured by the Border Patrol, and they still get paid," one Mexican federal agent said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak with the media.

The deception doesn't end there. One gang, arrested in April, would plant a member in the group of immigrants. When asked for a telephone number, he would immediately provide it and be rewarded with good treatment. Other immigrants, seeking to avoid beatings, would do the same.

"You've saved yourself," the kidnapper told a gang member disguised as an immigrant, according to one victim in a videotaped interview with authorities that shielded his identity. "He acted like an immigrant, but we found out later that he wasn't. We realized that they had never hit him."

In the kidnapping incident in May, 11 immigrants were walking through the hills off the Tecate-Tijuana toll road when they were confronted at gunpoint. They were stripped, tied up and watched over by several gunmen while their families were contacted and ordered to wire $2,000 to gang associates in Mexico.

A couple of days later, Mexican authorities stumbled upon the gang during a routine patrol. In the ensuing gun battle, a Tecate deputy police chief was wounded in the leg by AK-47 gunfire. The group was eventually captured, and members led police to the alleged ring leader, Flores.

The highly publicized arrests have made immigrants aware of the dangers. Cupartin Sanchez, 27, interviewed at an immigrant shelter in Tijuana, said several smugglers had promised to get him across the border. He doesn't trust any of them, so he's going home to Guerrero.

"I'm not scared of the Border Patrol," Sanchez said, "but I am scared of the kidnappers."

WASHINGTON’S OPEN BORDERS FOR “CHEAP” LABOR, MEXICO, THE LA RAZA DEMS, LA RAZA, THE MEX FASCIST PARTY of AMERICA have long claimed that illegals are here to work jobs Americas WILL NOT DO!

NO AMERICAN SHOULD ACCEPT THAT INSULT!

This ONCE GREAT NATION was not built on staggeringly expensive “CHEAP” Mexican labor!!! We can see what that same labor has done for NARCOmex!

IT’S ALL ABOUT KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED, NOT ONLY FOR BIG AG PROFITS, but also across ALL SECTORS!

The invasion by invitation, and occupation by Mexico depresses wages $300 - $400 BILLION PER YEAR, then those Americans now at the bottom of the jobs heap, get the tax bills for the MEXICAN WELFARE STATE-IN-A-STATE! Los Angeles County alone pays out $600 MILLION PER YEAR IN WELFARE TO ILLEGALS AND HIS MEXICO’S BIRTHING CENTERS FOR THE LA RAZA ANCHOR BABY EXPANSION OF THE MEX OCCUPATION.

There is a reason why most of the FORTUNE 500 and the U.S. CHAMBER of COMMERCE are big LA RAZA FASCIST PARTY DONORS!

CALIFORNIA IS NOW UNDER MEXICAN OCCUPATION. There are only eight (8) states with a population greater than Los Angeles County, where 50% of those with a job are ILLEGALS USING STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS.

LA RAZA ENDORSED Sen. DIANNE FEINSTEIN & BARBARA BOXER have taken huge campaign bribes from special interests that benefit from exploiting illegals, such as Feinstein’s paymasters WELLS FARGO and BANK of AMERICA (both illegally open bank accounts for illegals and made out like bank robbers handing out profitable mortgages to illegals with stolen or fraudulent docs). TWICE these corrupt lifer-politicians have pushed for a “SPECIAL AMNESTY” on behalf of their BIG AG BIZ donors who have signs posted on all agricultural fields, “NO LEGAL NEED APPLY – WE DON’T PAY LIVING WAGES”. FEINSTEIN AND BOXER PUSHED THEIR “SPECIAL AMNESTY” FOR 1.5 MILLION WORKERS DESPITE THE FACT THAT ONE-THIRD OF ALL FARM WORKERS END UP ON WELFARE! AND… despite California’s staggering unemployment.

YOU MAY FIND IT DIFFICULT TO HEAR A WORD ABOUT EITHER UNEMPLOYMENT or FORECLOSURES in California by FEINSTEIN or BOXER. It’s all about KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED, AND BAILING OUT BANKSTER CRIMINALS LIKE WELLS FARGO and BANK of AMERICA, aka BANK of ILLEGALS!

Dianne Feinstein has long hired illegals at her S.F. hotel.Nancy Pelosi has long hired illegals at her $20 MILLION DOLLAR ST. HELENA, NAPA WINERY!

BOTTOM LINE… There is no job an American will not do for a living wage, and that is the crux of the matter, and why we have open borders…. KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED FOR THE CORPORATE INTERESTS.

ALL THREE, Feinstein, Boxer, and Pelosi have pushed tirelessly for AMNESTY, OPEN BORDERS, NO E-VERIFY, NO REAL I.C.E. ENFORCEMENT, NO I.D. FOR ILLEGALS TO VOTE, NO ENGLISH ONLY, REDUCED RATES FOR ILLEGALS IN OUR COLLEGES even as legals struggle to pay for the education of their children as CALIFORNIA DRIFTS EVER DEEPER INTO MELTDOWN…. due in part to the MEXICAN OCCUPATION and WELFARE STATE.

California pays out $20 BILLION TO ILLEGALS IN SOCIAL SERVICES AND HAS THE LARGEST AND MOST EXPENSIVE STATE PRISON SYSTEM, OF WHICH HALF THE INMATES ARE ILLEGALS FORM MEXICO most actively pursuing their gang and drug cartel interests behind bars! VIVA LA RAZA!

NEW YORK TIMES - OWNED BY MEX BILLIONAIRE CARLOS SLIM and IS PROPAGANDA MOUTHPIECE FOR LA RAZA!

July 16, 2010Jobs for the PickingThe United Farm Workers union has issued a call to unemployed American citizens: “Job may include using hand tools such as knives, hoes, shovels, etc. Duties may include tilling the soil, transplanting, weeding, thinning, picking, cutting, sorting & packing of harvested produce. May set up & operate irrigation equip. Work is performed outside in all weather conditions (Summertime 90+ degree weather) & is physically demanding requiring workers to bend, stoop, lift & carry up to 50 lbs on a regular basis.” It is safe to conclude that few if any Americans will take up the offer, no matter how hungry they are. The campaign is a sly attempt to draw attention to the push for immigration reform, particularly an effort to legalize undocumented farm workers. With anti-immigrant resentment running hot, many accuse immigrants of stealing American jobs. The union replies: How can immigrants steal jobs nobody else wants? There are, of course, industries besides agriculture in which immigrant labor dominates, and it is fair to note that more Americans would take dirty, difficult jobs if they offered better pay and benefits. Still, it is hard to imagine the native-born work force itching to return en masse to housekeeping, landscaping, car washing, meatpacking, poultry plucking and street-corner day labor. The answer is not to eradicate immigrants so American sons and daughters can have the low-wage economy all to themselves. It is to have those jobs filled by a legal immigrant work force, and to raise the floor on wages and working conditions so no American industry gets to run on cheap, exploited labor. That is the reform that President Obama and some members of Congress have been pushing for, against the objections of those who would rather complain about immigrant workers than fix the system. *Bill aims to fix farmworker shortage

CALIF. SENATORS PUSH PATH TO CITIZENSHIP

By Nicole GaouetteLos Angeles TimesWASHINGTON - California's Democratic senators introduced legislation Wednesday that would put some illegal immigrant farmworkers on a path to citizenship and revamp a little-used agricultural guest-worker program.Flanked by Republican colleagues, immigrant advocates and a California pear grower, Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer presented the bill as a matter of survival for labor-strapped farmers.``Today, many farmers are on a precipice,'' Feinstein said. ``Whether they survive to plant another season is determined largely on one simple question: Will there be enough workers to bring in the harvest?''About 1 million undocumented laborers work California's 76,500 farms, making up about 90 percent of the state's agricultural payroll. Tougher enforcement along the southern border and inside the country has left farmers scrambling for enough hands at harvest time, especially since undocumented workers tend to leave agricultural work for higher-paying jobs in the construction, restaurant and hospitality industries.If the labor shortage continues, the American Farm Bureau Federation estimates that California losses would start at $3 billion a year and could climb as high as $4.1 billion. California farms generate $34 billion in revenue a year.Toni Scully, a Lake County pear grower, said he lost large amounts of a nearly flawless crop last year. ``It is extremely painful for a farmer to have to see a portion of his crop abandoned, or fruit culled out because it was harvested too late,'' Scully said. He estimated that about 25 percent of the county crop was lost in 2006 because of labor shortages.Backers said the bill, which has four co-sponsors, has the votes to pass but also said they would prefer to see it as part of a larger immigration package.The legislation would allow illegal immigrants who have worked in agriculture for at least 150 days over the past two years to receive a ``blue card,'' which would entitle them to temporary legal-resident status. A limit of 1.5 million blue cards would be distributed over five years, when the program would end.Blue-card holders would be allowed to travel in and out of the United States. To be eligible to apply for permanent legal-resident status, they would have to continue doing farm work for another three years at 150 days a year, or for another five years at 100 days a year.The program would require applicants to pay $500, show that they are up to date on their taxes and have not been convicted of a serious crime.The bill also would revamp the H2-A guest-worker program to make it easier and less expensive for growers to use and to protect them from lawsuits. With more than 300 pages of regulations, the current program requires farmers to go through 60 steps to get workers from overseas.``Only 2 percent of American agriculture uses the program because it is so difficult to use,'' said Sharon Hughes, executive vice president of the National Council of Agricultural Employers.*